The fourteenth round of all-people candlelight rally
The
14th all-people action was launched across south Korea on Feb. 4 under
the sponsorship of the emergency people's action for the resignation of
the Park Geun-hye regime with more than 420 000 people of all strata
involved.
There
took place a candlelight rally "Day of the 14th all-people actions for
impeaching Park Geun-hye within February, ousting Hwang Kyo-ahn,
detaining accomplices and realizing reform through candlelight" at the
Gwanghwamun Plaza, Seoul.
A
meeting held outside the Seoul Central District Court condemned the
Park Geun-hye group for slowing the trial of her impeachment.
The spring of our society would come when a maxim “Everybody is equal before the law” is proven, they said.
They
noted that they waged a stay-in strike in front of the Seoul Central
District Court for more than ten days since the court declined the
warrant of arrest for Lee Chae-young, vice-chairman of Samsung
Electronics Co. on Jan. 19.
Lee
offered the Park regime more than forty billion won and embezzled
trillions of money after obtaining the right of management from the
regime.
They
noted that the present society, in which law, justice and equality
faded away, should be rebuilt and pointed out that Lee’s arrest would be
a starting point of the building of a new society desired by the
people.
139 professors of laws released a statement titled “We demand Lee’s incarceration and reform of judicature”.
The
Seoul Central District Court declined the warrant of arrest for Lee,
though he was charged with bribing, the statement criticized.
The
special inspection team’s issue of a warrant of arrest for Lee is a
first step for destruction of a cozy relationship between politics and
business and realization of democracy and legalism, the statement
stressed.
They
carried effigy of Park and Lee and miniature of the Gwanghwamun jail in
which those responsible for the power abuse are locked in and marched
toward the Gangnam Station, while chanting “Park, out”, “Arrest Lee” and
“Big business groups are accomplices.”
After the end of prior meeting in different places of Seoul, they staged a candlelight action at the Gwanghwamun Plaza.
The people from different parts of south Korea took part in the rally.
Park
should be impeached within February and they would launch a large-scale
rally across south Korea on February 25 marking the four year of her
tenure if there is no sign of impeachment, they warned.
After
the rally, they marched toward the Blue House, the official residence
of the prime minister and the “Constitutional Court”.
The
south Korean security authorities deployed over 14 000 police of 176
companies to crack down on demonstrators, however, they marched along
the streets chanting slogans against Park and accomplices.
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